RISMedia

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RISMedia was founded in 1980 by CEO and Publisher John E. Featherston, as the residential real estate industry’s definitive source for news and information for real estate’s most profitable and productive professionals–and all those looking to gain a competitive edge. Source

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Commentary, Industry Insights and More Spotlighted on ‘UNwritten’Realty ONE Group has redesigned its blog, UNwritten, containing news, trends, tech tools and more, plus a new “Stories of Tomorrow” tagline. The blog also features Realty ONE Group’s podcast, UNreal, as well as “Kuba’s Corner,” a personal blog by the brand’s founder, Kuba Jewgieniew.

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This month’s National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Power Broker Roundtable discusses fraud and security strategies. Christina Pappas: The FBI cites wire fraud—and specifically business email compromise (BEC) scams—as the fastest-growing crime in the world, with losses to large and small companies and individuals soaring into the billions and complaints flooding law enforcement with increasing frequency from all 50 states and at least 79 countries.

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Engel & VÃ¶lkers has announced the opening of three shops along Boston’s South Shore: Engel & VÃ¶lkers Duxbury, Engel & VÃ¶lkers Norwell and Engel & VÃ¶lkers Plymouth. All are led by License Partner and Managing Broker Sheri Sibley. “Along Boston’s historic South Shore, buyers are looking for homes ranging from large waterfront estates to small beach cottages, antique homes and new builds in planned communities,” says Anthony Hitt, president and CEO of Engel & VÃ¶lkers Americas.

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ERA Real Estate commemorated the 25th anniversary of ERA France’s affiliation with the network, both at a convention at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, held February 5-6, and at the ERA International Business Conference (IBC), held February 19-21. Along with the honor, ERA Real Estate has renewed its master franchise agreement with ERA France for another 25 years. “ERA Real Estate launched its first European affiliate in 1993 with the opening of ERA France,” says Simon Chen, CEO of ERA Real Estate.

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February’s home-building receded, with housing starts softening 7 percent and totaling 1.24 million, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Notably, single-family starts increased 2.9 percent to 902,000. Multifamily starts (five units or more) came in at 317,000. The decline is a departure from January, when groundbreaking soared some 10 percent.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced an effort to enhance its financial processes, aiming to improve outdated protocols. According to the agency, HUD intends to:“We simply need to do better,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson in a statement. “An updated system of internal controls will provide our agency with greater certainty that the dollars we spend are spent in a manner that satisfies all laws and regulations, and, most importantly, the American people.

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Appraisals are better checking out with what owners perceive, just 0.53 percent below what was expected by homeowners, according to the February Quicken Loans National Home Price Perception Index (HPPI). The Quicken Loans National Home Value Index (HVI) shows appraised values rose 6.37 percent year-over-year. Appraisals continue to fall short of owner expectations; however, the difference between the two data points is shrinking.

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NRT Relocation and Referral Services is awarding $20,000 in college scholarships through its Share Your Moving Story program, NRT LLC announced. The program gives high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to write and share an essay about how the experience of moving has affected them. The applicants who submit the top 10 stories will each win a $2,000 scholarship to the college of their choice.

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Selecting a term

Phrases (e.g. "cloud computing") — use quotes to keep the terms together

Twitter handles (e.g. @username) — returns those who have mentioned or replied to
given user

Names (e.g. "David Pogue")

Hashtags (e.g. #sxsw, #london2012)

Bio details (e.g. vegan, Olympics, father)

Advanced terms

Muck Rack's Advanced Search allows for many boolean operators.

AND

Find results that mention multiple specified terms, use AND or
+. For example, ensure each result contains both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg by
searching Musk AND Zuckerberg or Musk + Zuckerberg.

OR

Use the operators OR or , to broaden your search when you'd like either of
multiple terms to appear in results. (This is the default behavior of our search when no operators
are used). For example, results will contain either cake or cookie by searching cake OR cookie or cake,cookie

NOT

Use NOT or - to subtract results from your search. For
example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney
World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney
NOT World.

Phrases

When using one of these operators with a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks. For example, you can
find results about smartphones excluding Apple's iPhone 4S by searching smartphone -"iPhone
4s".

Exact case matching or punctuation

If you're searching for a brand name or keyword that relies on specific punctuation marks or capitalization, you can
find results that match your exact query by adding matchcase: before the keyword you're searching for, like matchcase:E*TRADE .

Combining operators

Use parentheses to separate multiple
boolean phrases. For example, to find journalists talking about having fun in Disney World or
Disneyland, search for ("disney world" OR disneyland) AND fun.

Asterisk

An asterisk can be used to search for any variation of a root word truncated by the asterisk. For example, searching for admin* will return results for administrator, administration, administer, administered, etc.

Near

A near operator is an AND operator where you can control the distance between the words. You can vary the distance the near operation uses by adding a forward slash and number (between 0-99) such as strawberries NEAR/10 "whipped cream", which means the strawberries must exist within 10 words of "whipped cream".